February 25, 2000
Protests Over Sweatshops Spur 2 Universities to Change Policies
Students at several universities staged sit-ins last week to protest the use of sweatshops in the manufacture of campus apparel, prompting two of the universities to withdraw from an anti-sweatshop group that the protesters consider too weak.
The University of Pennsylvania and the University of Wisconsin at Madison agreed to withdraw, at least temporarily, from the Fair Labor Association -- a group that includes apparel manufacturers -- which was created in
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